Overview
- Provides focused case studies on key strategic states like Iran, Ukraine, and North Korea
- Wide geographic scope of the contributed chapters offers insight into US strategic relations with the Middle East, Europe, and Asia
- Contributors vary from academics to practitioners and government officials
Part of the book series: Initiatives in Strategic Studies: Issues and Policies (ISSIP)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book applies the cutting-edge socio-cultural model Cultural Topography Analytic Framework (CTAF) pioneered in the authors’ earlier volume Strategic Culture and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Culturally Based Insights into Comparative National Security Policymaking (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) with an eye towards isolating those vectors of nuclear decision-making on which the US might exert influence within a foreign state. The case studies included in this volume tackle a number of the nuclear challenges—termed “nuclear thresholds”—likely to be faced by the US and identify the most promising points of leverage available to American policymakers in ameliorating a wide range of over-the-horizon nuclear challenges. Because near and medium-term nuclear thresholds are likely to involve both allies and adversaries simultaneously, meaning that US response will require strategies tailored to both the perception of threat experienced by the actors in question, the value the actorsplace on their relationship with the US, and the domestic context driving decision-making. This volume offers a nuanced look at each actor’s identity, national norms, values, and perceptual lens in order to offer culturally-focused insights into behavior and intentions.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jeannie L. Johnson is Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at Utah State University, USA.
Kerry M. Kartchner is Visiting Lecturer at the Bush School of Government and Public Policy at Texas A&M University, USA.
Marilyn Maines is Faculty Member at the Center for Advanced Study of Language at the University of Maryland in College Park, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Crossing Nuclear Thresholds
Book Subtitle: Leveraging Sociocultural Insights into Nuclear Decisionmaking
Editors: Jeannie L. Johnson, Kerry M. Kartchner, Marilyn J. Maines
Series Title: Initiatives in Strategic Studies: Issues and Policies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72670-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-72669-4Published: 07 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10247-0Published: 28 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-72670-0Published: 25 April 2018
Series ISSN: 2945-7130
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7149
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 277
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations